...is that why things turned out the way they did, you think? [Dave and Karkat and Jade living together, Dave dating Karkat, a universe where he was living with people but maybe not the right people.]

I don't know if it matters now since we're still technically different versions of ourselves, too, but that doesn't seem fair. You guys are the ones who did everything so...it's like.

[The main reason he never told Dave is because it sounds so goddamn stupid to him.] I don't want to replace you. In any timeline. Ever. And I did and I didn't mean to do it like that.